SCIENTOLOGY 0-8
T H E B O O K O F B A S I C S
By
L. RON HUBBARD
SPO A/S
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April 2006.
The Rising Phoenix
Have you ever had the experience of coming to the end of a page and realizing you didn’t know what you had read?
Somewhere earlier on that page you went past a word that you had no definition for.
This discovery about misunderstood words is actually the most important fact in the whole subject of study.
The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is that he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.
Therefore, in studying Scientology, be very, very certain you never go past a word you do not fully understand.
And if the material becomes confusing or you can’t seem to grasp it, don’t go any further, but return to the last portion you understood easily, go forward from there, locate the misunderstood word and get it defined. And then go on.
It will not only be the new and unusual words that you have to look up, so don’t depend only on our glossary (pages 117 to 121), but use also a good general English dictionary as well.
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This is part of a restoration project at digitalizing the original work, thus making it possible for current masses as well as our future generations to receive, at first hand, the data that was released originally in the times when LRH was still on lines developing the Tech. The information about the publication of the book (known as colophon) is included so that the book remains trackable. If there were to be a digital library for the collection of such books then indeed our books would encounter no difficulties in being included.
All care has been taken, through proofreading, that the original text stay exactly the same, however, the minor typographic errors that existed in the original have been removed for grammatical correctness (see Errata, page 121). The text has also been reflown (repaginated) and formatted to the A4 paper size.
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The Rising Phoenix
March 2006.
A Description of Scientology
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I 1. The Factors
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2. The Qs (The Prelogics)
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3. Consideration and Mechanics
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4. The Axioms of Scientology
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II 1. The Auditor’s Code AD 18
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2. The Code of Honor
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3. The Code of a Scientologist
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4. The Creed of the Church
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5. The Supervisor’s Code and Stable Data
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6. The Credo of a Good and Skilled Manager
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III 1. Primary Axioms from the Original Thesis
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2. The Fundamental Axioms of Dianetics
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3. The Logics
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4. The Axioms of Dianetics
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IV Perceptics
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V A Book of Scales Scales
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i The Tone Scale
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ii Emotion and Affinity Scale
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iii Reality and Communication Scale
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iv Behavior and Physiological Scale
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v Scale of Motion
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vi The Emotional Tone Scale
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vii DEI to CDEI
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viii CDEI Cycle with Lower Scale
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ix Points of Case Address
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x Scale of Identification
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xiv A Pan Determinism Scale
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xv Responsibility Scale
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xvi Havingness Scale
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xvii The Pre-Havingness Scale
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xviii Effect Scale
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xix Effect Scale
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xx An Awareness Scale
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xxi Scale of Confront
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xxii Reality-Spotting by E-Meter
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xxii Time Sense, Deterioration of
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Charge and the Time Track
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xxiv State of Case Scale
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xxv Awareness Characteristics
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xxvi Lower Awareness Levels
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xxvii States Attained
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VI The Axioms of S O P 8-C
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Glossary
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Errata
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Books
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i
My purpose is to bring a barbarism out of the mud it thinks conceived it and to form, here on Earth, a civilization based on human understanding, not violence.
That’s a big purpose. A broad field. A star-high goal.
But I think it’s your purpose, too.
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While Scientology encompasses a broader scope than any previous Eastern or Western religion ever has, it should be realized that a great deal of what is known today in Scientology, with an added exactness of understanding, was already known and lost thousands of years ago.
What we are DOING with this data is NEW. The technology for bringing about a new state in man is new. But the basic hope of man as it appears today in Scientology is thousands of years old. And when we call Scientology a religion we are calling it a religion out of a much deeper well than only the last two thousand years. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and in Western civilization.
Scientology stands complete today, with the oldest philosophical tradition of man, with new discoveries about man, and with a technology of tremendous power and breadth which treats the livingness and beingness of man, and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom.
Subjects which were consulted in over a third of a century of organization and development of Scientology include the Veda; the Tao of Lao-tze; the Dharma and the Discourses of Gautama Buddha; the general knowingness about life extant in the lamaseries of the Western Hills of China; the technologies and beliefs of various barbaric cultures; the various materials of Christianity; the mathematical and technical methodologies of the early Greeks, Romans and Arabians; the physical sciences, including the various speculations of western philosophers such as Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer and Dewey, and the various technologies extant in the civilization of both the Orient and Occident in the first half of the twentieth century. Scientology is an organization of the pertinencies which are mutually held true by all men in all times, and the development of technologies which demonstrate the existence of new phenomena not hitherto known, which are useful in creating states of beingness considered more desirable by man.
But the philosopher had ordinarily spent most of his working years in his ivory tower and
was pretty well isolated from his subject. To know life you’ve got to be part of life, you must
get down there and look, you must get into the nooks and crannies of existence, and you must
rub elbows with all kinds and types of men before you can finally establish what man is. I lived
with bandits in Mongolia and hunted with pygmies in the Philippines—as a matter of fact I
studied twenty-one different primitive races—including the white race—and my conclusions
were that man, regardless of his state or culture, was essentially the same, that he was a spiritual
being pulled down to the material, and I concluded finally that he needed a hand.
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In 1932 an investigation was undertaken to determine the dynamic principle of existence in a workable form which might lead to the resolution of some of the problems of mankind. A long research in ancient and modern philosophy culminated in 1938 in the heuristically discovered primary law. A work was written at that time which embraced man and his activities.
In the following years further research was undertaken in order to prove or disprove the axioms so established.
My first effort was to find a common denominator to all men. Having seen man in his more primitive states and his highly cultured states I knew that if we could isolate a common denominator that embraced all men, then perhaps from that we could unlock this riddle.
I discovered that the common denominator of existence was SURVIVE. Whatever else man was trying to do, whether he was cultured or primitive, he was attempting to survive. Well, what of such things as morals, ideals, love? Don’t these things go above “mere survival”?
Unfortunately or fortunately, they do not. Ideals, honesty, love of one’s fellow man—one cannot find good survival for one or for many where these things are absent. Even the most esoteric concepts fall within this understanding. Survival is not a matter of being alive this moment and dead the next. Survival is actually a graduated scale.
The Dynamic was discovered to have eight sub-divisions with each single Dynamic then being the urge, thrust and purpose of Life—SURVIVE!—in any of one of eight manifestations.
The First Dynamic is the urge toward survival of self.
The Second Dynamic is the urge toward survival through sex, or children.
The Third Dynamic is the urge toward survival through a group of individuals or as a group.
The Fourth Dynamic is the urge toward survival through all mankind and as all mankind.
The Fifth Dynamic is the urge toward survival through life forms such as animals, birds, insects, fish and vegetation, and is the urge to survive as these.
The Sixth Dynamic is the urge toward survival as the physical universe and has as its components Matter, Energy, Space and Time (from which we derive the word MEST).
The Seventh Dynamic is the urge toward survival through spirits or as a spirit. Anything spiritual, with or without identity, would come under the Seventh Dynamic. A sub-heading of this Dynamic is ideas and concepts such as beauty, and the desire to survive through these.
The Eighth Dynamic is the urge toward survival through a Supreme Being, or more exactly, Infinity.
Covering the first four of these Dynamics, Dianetics became, of all the past studies of man, the grandpa, the immediate ancestor of Scientology. Dianetics was the basic discovery which led to and was the reason for Scientology.
None of the postulates and early discoveries in this research outlawed any concept concerning the human soul or divine or creative imagination. The optimum survival conduct pattern was formulated and then studied for exceptions, and there were no exceptions found.
It was understood perfectly that Dianetics was a study in the finite universe only and that spheres and realms of thought and action might well exist above this finite sphere. But it was also discovered that none of these factors were needed to resolve the entire problem of human aberration and irrational conduct.
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because man had not been able to distinguish between irrational conduct derived from poor data, and irrational conduct derived from another, far more vicious source.
The Reactive Mind was discovered. It had managed to bury itself from view so thoroughly that only inductive philosophy, travelling from effect back to cause, served to uncover it. The Reactive Mind is a portion of a person’s mind which works on a totally stimulus-response basis, which is not under his volitional control, and which exerts force and the power of command over his awareness, purposes, thoughts, body and actions.
Stored in the Reactive Mind are engrams, and here we find the single source of aberrations and psychosomatic ills.
These engrams are a complete recording, down to the last accurate detail, of every perception present in a moment of partial or full unconsciousness.
In all laboratory tests on these engrams they were found to possess “inexhaustible” sources of power to command the body.
The Reactive Mind comprises an unknowing, unwanted series of aberrated computations which bring about an effect upon the individual and those around him. It is an obsessive strata of unknown, unseen, uninspected data which are forcing solutions, unknown and unsuspected, on the individual—which tells you why it remained hidden from man for so many thousands of years.
The isolation and resolution of the Reactive Mind was a major breakthrough for man. The exact moment of the breakthrough is recorded at the public level with the book, DIANETICS:
The Modern Science of Mental Health, and if people have not read this book, they just will not have broken through, whatever else they have studied. And when people are asking you questions about Dianetics and Scientology, no matter how obtuse or abstruse the questions are, your best answer to these is still my earliest answer and that was DIANETICS: The Modern Science of Mental Health. This book burst on the western world in May 1950, shot to the top of the leading
“best-seller” lists and stayed there, and stayed there. It still sells more copies around the world than the average best seller in any given year.
Man had no inkling whatever of Dianetics. None. This was the bolt from the blue. Man was hacking and sawing and shocking and injecting and teaching and moralizing and counselling and hanging and jailing men with enthusiasm without any idea at all of what caused Man to behave as he did or what made him sick or well.
The answer, and the place where one begins, was and still is Dianetics. It is Man’s most advanced school of the mind. Though they hold in common certain basic tools, Dianetics and Scientology are not identical subjects and their technologies are not the same. But the early days of Dianetics were the early beginnings of Scientology. Dianetics is the route from aberrated (or aberrated and ill) human to a well, happy, high-I.Q. human being. This breakthrough had never before been achieved in Man’s history. Scientology is the route from there to total freedom and ability as a spiritual being.
Oddly enough, the step from a human being to a spirit had been achieved, if rarely—
Buddhism, other spiritual practices, even Christianity—but it was not generally credited.
Scientology really achieves it and for the first time with TOTAL stability, no relapse and
invariably one for one. Nevertheless man had an inkling of the goals of Scientology even though
he considered them almost beyond God. But man had no inkling whatever of Dianetics.
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There are two distinct divisions in Scientology. The first is philosophic, the second is technical. Under the philosophic heading one discovers the ways and means of forming new ways of life and evaluating or creating standards of livingness and beingness. By this knowingness alone and without processing (individual technical applications), it should be understood clearly that a new way of life could be created, or an old way of life could be understood and better endured or altered.
Under the technical division we have a long series of developed processes which, applied immediately and directly to life or an organism thereof, produce desirable changes in the conditions of life. This division comprises Applied Scientology or Scientology, Applied Philosophy and contains standard technology.
Scientology concludes and demonstrates certain truths. These truths might be considered to be the highest common denominators of existence itself. They have the aspect of precision observations rather than philosophic hazardings. When treated as precision observations, many results occur. When regarded as philosophic opinions, only more philosophy results.
I looked early and long at man to find out what methods he used to survive, how he adapted himself to environments in his attempt at survival, and what I found was that man advanced to the degree that he preserved his spiritual integrity, that he preserved his values, that he remained honest, that he remained decent—and I found that he disintegrated or deteriorated to the degree that he abandoned these things.
The average man is up against problems. He’s asking himself, how can I make more money?
How can I make my wife faithful to me? How can I help my children grow up? These questions absorb a tremendous quantity of his energy. But he can’t do anything about it because he is so immersed in it. So in Scientology processing he resolves these questions, he understands what he’s doing, and he turns from a man who is simply a puzzled static being into somebody who is more than that.
We see governments and societies desperately trying to help man. They’re trying, however, to solve his problems for him and their efforts to do this have not resulted in any great advance for man.
Now the real work is to put an individual into a mental condition where he can confront his own problems and solve them—to put him in a position where he can confront life better, where his reaction-time is better, where he can identify the factors in his life more easily. And so he looks around, starts solving his own problems and betters his own life. That is an essential difference between Scientology and other efforts to help man.
We have in the technical division of Scientology basically two activities—processing and training. Scientology processing is done on the principle of making an individual look at his own existence, and improve his ability to confront what he is and where he is. An auditor is the person trained in the technology and whose job it is to ask the person to look, and get him to do so. There is a large technology for this but an auditor has to be able to get his questions answered and the individual who is being processed finally has to answer the questions. The question is asked until it is totally answered and the person is totally aware that he has answered it. The word auditor is used because it means one who listens, and a Scientology auditor does listen.
As people come into Scientology (and they’re coming in in very swiftly increasing numbers all over the world), normally what they do first is read a book, and then they may read quite a few books, and go around and about Scientology for some time. They attend some of the
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They begin to get along better physically, and then to make increasingly larger gains. Their I.Q.
goes up, their abilities increase, they are more capable of handling their lives—and they are prepared for the gains of Scientology.
And when one then decides to be an auditor he or she goes to an Academy of Scientology and studies and learns how to audit and so help others. And here again, one can begin with Dianetics, the first training ground for an auditor.
You’ll find throughout Scientology that the gradient approach is a primary and regulating factor. And a gradient approach has been very, very important in this line of research. The principle is incidentally quite new. The essence of a gradient is just being able to do a little bit more and a little bit more and a little bit more until you finally make the grade.
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We live in a world that is desperately in need of some good order—it isn’t, aberration on our part that we say some things ought to be changed. Actually I rarely tell you things should be changed—I simply tell you that a world has to be created. I don’t even assume one exists. I figure that this one’s on its way out and that somebody had better put one in its place. Just how we go about doing that is up to you and up to me. This is what we call Scientology: Applied Philosophy.
People think of professional practitioners as doctors, who, aloof from other concerns, practice on the sick. This is a very novel idea, however. It was dreamed up, probably, by the first lazy witch-doctor, and used forever thereafter by most mental specialists. I want to banish that idea from amongst us all.
If we are doctors (by which might be meant “repairers”) then we are doctors on the Third and Fourth Dynamics, the Dynamics of groups and of mankind as a whole, and we handle the First (self) and the Second (sex and family) only to achieve better function on the Third and Fourth.
The Third and Fourth Dynamics subdivide. Any Third breaks down into many activities and professions—a neighborhood, a business concern, a military group, a city government, etc. The Fourth breaks down, just now, mainly to races and nations.
So you see that the idea people sometimes have that a Scientologist must be an auditor who audits individuals in private sessions is too limited an idea.
We find ourselves for instance today with the job of cleaning up the whole field of mental health. That is at least what it calls itself. Mental “health” has been perverted for something over a half a century into an excuse for a Belsen or an Auschwitz. It’s an operating climate of danger and chaos. That field couldn’t even begin to clean itself up. It was unaware of or cold to human rights. It had no technology that worked, upon which to base any actual professional ethics. As we do in Scientology have the technology and the ethics, we inherited the job. It’s like trying to pull a wounded water buffalo out of a wallow, but we are doing it.
Where we have made the breakthrough in Scientology and where we have made progress, we have done so in accomplishing the goals which man has had as long as he has been man.
What he has considered good and what he has considered desirable in the field of philosophy,
we have accomplished technically. We have now arrived in Scientology at a point where man
You are in a very fortunate position of not having to develop the technology of auditing. A good auditor has found this out. He uses the tools he’s got and he uses them well. There is a tremendous amount of understanding involved here. There are millions of words written on the subject of auditing technology. An auditor can be pretty staggered to suddenly realize how much he really knows.
Auditors are dedicated and sincere in getting this job done. There has never been a more sincere group on the face of the Earth than those who are in the ranks of Scientology auditors.
We wouldn’t have started on auditing if we weren’t good people who wanted to help our fellow man. We are the first people to appear on Earth since its first solidification out of nebulous vaporings who can get this job done, and who really know what we are doing.
The very truth that we know, its simplicity and ease of grasp, the very honesty with which we approach our task, give us probably the largest barriers we have to overcome. Man has been defrauded so often, persuaded so wrongly, and has returned to the same old rut so inevitably and in such a defeated frame of mind, that he is not able to grasp easily the firm and friendly hand of the auditor which is being reached out to him.
The route to highest states of existence has been sought long by man in the fields of religion, mysticism, spiritualism, philosophy, mental arts, metaphysics, science and allied studies.
Vast libraries could be filled with the scraps of information gathered in the course of this search. The great achievement of Scientology has been the culling of truth from this sea of data and finding that the truth was a tiny group of data possessed of the overwhelming power of changing all other facts in this universe and in livingness.
The opening of the road depended upon the success of codifying this information so that it could be relayed to others.
The philosophical and technical information of a Scientologist includes the following as basic material.
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1. THE FACTORS
2. THE Qs (THE PRELOGICS)
3. CONSIDERATION AND MECHANICS
(Summation of the considerations and examinations of the human spirit and the material universe completed between A.D. 1923 and 1953)
1. Before the beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect.
2. In the beginning and forever is the decision and the decision is TO BE.
3. The first action of beingness is to assume a viewpoint.
4. The second action of beingness is to extend from the viewpoint, points to view, which are dimension points.
5. Thus there is space created, for the definition of space is: viewpoint of dimension. And the purpose of a dimension point is space and a point of view.
6. The action of a dimension point is reaching and withdrawing.
7. And from the viewpoint to the dimension points there are connection and interchange.
Thus new dimension points are made. Thus there is communication.
8. And thus there is light.
9. And thus there is energy.
10. And thus there is life.
11. But there are other viewpoints and these viewpoints outthrust points to view. And there comes about an interchange amongst viewpoints; but the interchange is never otherwise than in terms of exchanging dimension points.
12. The dimension point can be moved by the viewpoint, for the viewpoint, in addition to creative ability and consideration, possesses volition and potential independence of action; and the viewpoint, viewing dimension points, can change in relation to its own or other dimension points or viewpoints. Thus comes about all the fundamentals there are to motion.
13. The dimension points are each and every one, whether large or small, solid. And they are solid solely because the viewpoints say they are solid.
14. Many dimension points combine into larger gases, fluids or solids. Thus there is matter.
But the most valued point is admiration, and admiration is so strong its absence alone permits persistence.
15. The dimension point can be different from other dimension points and thus can possess an individual quality. And many dimension points can possess a similar quality, and others can possess a similar quality unto themselves. Thus comes about the quality of classes of matter.
16. The viewpoint can combine dimension points into forms and the forms can be simple or complex and can be at different distances from the viewpoints and so there can be combinations of form. And the forms are capable of motion and the viewpoints are capable of motion and so there can be motion of forms.
17. And the opinion of the viewpoint regulates the consideration of the forms, their
stillness or their motion, and these considerations consist of assignment of beauty or
18. It is the opinion of the viewpoints that some of these forms should endure. Thus there is survival.
19. And the viewpoint can never perish; but the form can perish.
20. And the many viewpoints, interacting, become dependent upon one another’s forms and do not choose to distinguish completely the ownership of dimension points and so comes about a dependency upon the dimension points and upon the other viewpoints.
21. From this comes a consistency of viewpoint of the interaction of dimension points and this, regulated, is TIME.
22. And there are universes.
23. The universes, then, are three in number: the universe created by one viewpoint, the universe created by every other viewpoint, the universe created by the mutual action of viewpoints which is agreed to be upheld—the physical universe.
24. And the viewpoints are never seen. And the viewpoints consider more and more that the dimension points are valuable. And the viewpoints try to become the anchor points and forget that they can create more points and space and forms. Thus comes about scarcity. And the dimension points can perish and so the viewpoints assume that they, too, can perish.
25. Thus comes about death.
26. The manifestations of pleasure and pain, of thought, emotion and effort, of thinking, of sensation, of affinity, reality, communication, of behavior and being are thus derived and the riddles of our universe are apparently contained and answered herein.
27. There is beingness, but Man believes there is only becomingness.
28. The resolution of any problem posed hereby is the establishment of viewpoints and dimension points, the betterment of condition and concourse amongst dimension points, and, thereby, viewpoints, and the remedy of abundance or scarcity in all things, pleasant or ugly, by the rehabilitation of the ability of the viewpoint to assume points of view and create and uncreate, neglect, start, change and stop dimension points of any kind at the determinism of the viewpoint. Certainty in all three universes must be regained, for certainty, not data, is knowledge.
29. In the opinion of the viewpoint, any beingness, any thing, is better than no thing, any effect is better than no effect, any universe better than no universe, any particle better than no particle, but the particle of admiration is best of all.
30. And above these things there might be speculation only. And below these things there is the playing of the game. But these things which are written here Man can experience and know. And some may care to teach these things and some may care to use them to assist those in distress and some may desire to employ them to make individuals and organizations more able and so give to Earth a culture of which we can be proud.
Humbly tendered as a gift to Man by L. Ron Hubbard, April 23, 1953
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THE Qs (THE PRELOGICS)
Q1 SELF-DETERMINISM IS THE COMMON DENOMINATOR OF ALL LIFE IMPULSES.
(a) DEFINITION OF SELF-DETERMINISM: THE ABILITY TO LOCATE IN SPACE AND TIME ENERGY AND MATTER, ALSO THE ABILITY TO CREATE SPACE AND TIME IN WHICH TO CREATE AND LOCATE ENERGY AND MATTER.
(b) THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE SOURCE OF THAT WHICH PLACES MATTER AND ENERGY AND ORIGINATES SPACE AND TIME IS NOT NECESSARY TO THE RESOLUTION OF THIS PROBLEM AT THIS TIME.
Q2 THETA CREATES SPACE, ENERGY AND OBJECTS BY POSTULATES.
Q3 UNIVERSES ARE CREATED BY THE APPLICATION OF SELF-DETERMINISM ON EIGHT DYNAMICS.
Q4 SELF-DETERMINISM, APPLIED, WILL CREATE, ALTER, CONSERVE AND POSSIBLY DESTROY UNIVERSES.
Q5 THE ACTION CYCLE IS ONE OF THE ABILITIES OF A THETAN. AN ACTION CYCLE GOES FROM 40.0 TO 0.0 ON THE TONE SCALE. AN ACTION CYCLE IS THE CREATION, GROWTH, CONSERVATION, DECAY AND DEATH OR DESTRUCTION OF ENERGY AND MATTER IN A SPACE. ACTION CYCLES PRODUCE TIME.
NOTE: This edition restores the Q numbers as given in the
Philadelphia Doctorate Course Lectures of December, 1952.
CONSIDERATION AND MECHANICS
Considerations take rank over the mechanics of space, energy, and time. By this it is meant that an idea or opinion is, fundamentally, superior to space, energy, and time, or organizations of form, since it is conceived that space, energy, and time are themselves broadly agreed-upon considerations. That so many minds agree brings about Reality in the form of space, energy, and time. These mechanics, then, of space, energy, and time are the product of agreed-upon considerations mutually held by life.
The aspects of existence when viewed from the level of Man, however, is a reverse of the greater truth above for Man works on the secondary opinion that mechanics are real, and that his own personal considerations are less important than space, energy, and time. This is an inversion. These mechanics of space, energy, and time, the forms, objects and combinations thereof, have taken such precedence in Man that they have become more important than considerations as such, and so his ability is overpowered and he is unable to act freely in the framework of mechanics. Man, therefore, has an inverted view. Whereas considerations such as those he daily makes are the actual source of space, energy, time and forms, Man is operating so as not to alter his basic considerations; he therefore invalidates himself by supposing another determinism of space, energy, time and form. Although he is part of that which created these, he gives them such strength and validity that his own considerations thereafter must fall subordinate to space, energy, time, and form, and so he cannot alter the Universe in which he dwells.
The freedom of an individual depends upon that individual’s freedom to alter his considerations of space, energy, time, and forms of life and his roles in it. If he cannot change his mind about these, he is then fixed and enslaved amidst barriers such as those of the physical universe, and barriers of his own creation. Man thus is seen to be enslaved by barriers of his own creation. He creates these barriers himself, or by agreeing with things which hold these barriers to be actual.
There is a basic series of assumptions in processing, which assumptions do not alter the philosophy of Scientology. The first of these assumptions is that Man can have a greater freedom. The second is that so long as he remains relatively sane, he desires a greater freedom.
And the third assumption is that the auditor desires to deliver a greater freedom to that person with whom he is working. If these assumptions are not agreed upon and are not used, then auditing degenerates into “the observation of effect”, which is, of course, a goal-less, soulless pursuit, and is, indeed, a pursuit which has degraded what is called modern science.
The goal of processing is to bring an individual into such thorough communication with the
physical universe that he can regain the power and ability of his own considerations
(postulates).
THE AXIOMS OF SCIENTOLOGY AXIOM 1. LIFE IS BASICALLY A STATIC.
Definition: a Life Static has no mass, no motion, no wavelength, no location in space or in time. It has the ability to postulate and to perceive.
AXIOM 2. THE STATIC IS CAPABLE OF CONSIDERATIONS, POSTULATES, AND OPINIONS.
AXIOM 3. SPACE, ENERGY, OBJECTS, FORM AND TIME ARE THE RESULT OF CONSIDERATIONS MADE AND/OR AGREED UPON OR NOT BY THE STATIC, AND ARE PERCEIVED SOLELY BECAUSE THE STATIC CONSIDERS THAT IT CAN PERCEIVE THEM.
AXIOM 4. SPACE IS A VIEWPOINT OF DIMENSION.
AXIOM 5. ENERGY CONSISTS OF POSTULATED PARTICLES IN SPACE.
AXIOM 6. OBJECTS CONSIST OF GROUPED PARTICLES.
AXIOM 7. TIME IS BASICALLY A POSTULATE THAT SPACE AND PARTICLES WILL PERSIST.
AXIOM 8. THE APPARENCY OF TIME IS THE CHANGE OF POSITION OF PARTICLES IN SPACE.
AXIOM 9. CHANGE IS THE PRIMARY MANIFESTATION OF TIME.
AXIOM 10. THE HIGHEST PURPOSE IN THIS UNIVERSE IS THE CREATION OF AN EFFECT.
AXIOM 11. THE CONSIDERATIONS RESULTING IN CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE ARE FOUR-FOLD.
(a) AS-IS-NESS is the condition of immediate creation without persistence, and is the condition of existence which exists at the moment of creation and the moment of destruction, and is different from other considerations in that it does not contain survival.
(b) ALTER-IS-NESS is the consideration which introduces change and therefore time and persistence, into an AS-IS-NESS to obtain persistency.
(c) IS-NESS is an apparency of existence brought about by the continuous alteration of an AS-IS-NESS. This is called, when agreed upon, Reality.
(d) NOT-IS-NESS is the effort to handle IS-NESS by reducing its condition through the use of force. It is an apparency and cannot entirely vanquish an IS-NESS.
AXIOM 12. THE PRIMARY CONDITION OF ANY UNIVERSE IS THAT TWO SPACES, ENERGIES, OR OBJECTS MUST NOT OCCUPY THE SAME SPACE. WHEN THIS CONDITION IS VIOLATED (PERFECT DUPLICATE) THE APPARENCY OF ANY UNIVERSE OR ANY PART THEREOF IS NULLED.
AXIOM 13. THE CYCLE OF ACTION OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE IS: CREATE,
AXIOM 14. SURVIVAL IS ACCOMPLISHED BY ALTER-IS-NESS AND NOT-IS-NESS, BY WHICH IS GAINED THE PERSISTENCY KNOWN AS TIME.
AXIOM 15. CREATION IS ACCOMPLISHED BY THE POSTULATION OF AN AS-IS- NESS.
AXIOM 16. COMPLETE DESTRUCTION IS ACCOMPLISHED BY THE POSTULATION OF THE AS-IS-NESS OF ANY EXISTENCE AND THE PARTS THEREOF.
AXIOM 17. THE STATIC, HAVING POSTULATED AS-IS-NESS, THEN PRACTICES ALTER-IS-NESS, AND SO ACHIEVES THE APPARENCY OF IS-NESS AND SO OBTAINS REALITY.
AXIOM 18. THE STATIC, IN PRACTICING NOT-IS-NESS, BRINGS ABOUT THE PERSISTENCE OF UNWANTED EXISTENCES, AND SO BRINGS ABOUT UNREALITY, WHICH INCLUDES FORGETFULNESS, UNCONSCIOUSNESS, AND OTHER UNDESIRABLE STATES.
AXIOM 19. BRINGING THE STATIC TO VIEW AS-IS ANY CONDITION DEVALUATES THAT CONDITION.
AXIOM 20. BRINGING THE STATIC TO CREATE A PERFECT DUPLICATE CAUSES THE VANISHMENT OF ANY EXISTENCE OR PART THEREOF.
A perfect duplicate is an additional creation of the object, its energy, and space, in its own space, in its own time, using its own energy. This violates the condition that two objects must not occupy the same space, and causes a vanishment of the object.
AXIOM 21. UNDERSTANDING IS COMPOSED OF AFFINITY, REALITY, AND COMMUNICATION.
AXIOM 22. THE PRACTICE OF NOT-IS-NESS REDUCES UNDERSTANDING.
AXIOM 23. THE STATIC HAS THE CAPABILITY OF TOTAL KNOWINGNESS. TOTAL KNOWINGNESS WOULD CONSIST OF TOTAL ARC.
AXIOM 24. TOTAL ARC WOULD BRING ABOUT THE VANISHMENT OF ALL MECHANICAL CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE.
AXIOM 25. AFFINITY IS A SCALE OF ATTITUDES WHICH FALLS AWAY FROM THE CO-EXISTENCE OF STATIC, THROUGH THE INTERPOSITIONS OF DISTANCE AND ENERGY, TO CREATE IDENTITY, DOWN TO CLOSE PROXIMITY BUT MYSTERY.
By the practice of Is-ness (Beingness) and Not-is-ness (refusal to Be) individuation progresses from the Knowingness of complete identification down through the introduction of more and more distance and less and less duplication, through Lookingness, Emotingness, Effortingness, Thinkingness, Symbolizingness, Eatingness, Sexingness, and so through to not-Knowingness (Mystery). Until the point of Mystery is reached, some communication is possible, but even at Mystery an attempt to communicate continues. Here we have, in the case of an individual, a gradual falling away from the belief that one can assume a complete Affinity down to the conviction that all is a complete Mystery. Any individual is somewhere on this Know-to-Mystery scale. The original Chart of Human Evaluation was the Emotion section of this scale.
AXIOM 26. REALITY IS THE AGREED-UPON APPARENCY OF EXISTENCE.
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AGREED WITH BY OTHERS IT CAN THEN BE SAID TO BE A REALITY.
The anatomy of Reality is contained in Is-ness, which is composed of As-is-ness and Alter-is-ness. Is-ness is an apparency, it is not an Actuality. The Actuality is As-is-ness altered so as to obtain a persistency.
Unreality is the consequence and apparency of the practice of Not-is-ness.
AXIOM 28. COMMUNICATION IS THE CONSIDERATION AND ACTION OF IMPELLING AN IMPULSE OR PARTICLE FROM SOURCE-POINT ACROSS A DISTANCE TO RECEIPT-POINT, WITH THE INTENTION OF BRINGING INTO BEING AT THE RECEIPT-POINT A DUPLICATION OF THAT WHICH EMANATED FROM THE SOURCE-POINT.
The formula of Communication is: Cause, Distance, Effect, with Attention and Duplication.
The component parts of Communication are Consideration, Intention, Attention, Cause, Source-point, Distance, Effect, Receipt-point, Duplication, the Velocity of the impulse or particle, Nothingness or Somethingness. A non-communication consists of Barriers. Barriers consist of Space, Interpositions (such as walls and screens of fast-moving particles), and Time. A communication, by definition, does not need to be two-way. When a communication is returned, the formula is repeated, with the receipt-point now becoming a source-point and the former source-point now becoming a receipt-point.
AXIOM 29. IN ORDER TO CAUSE AN AS-IS-NESS TO PERSIST, ONE MUST ASSIGN OTHER AUTHORSHIP TO THE CREATION THAN HIS OWN.
OTHERWISE HIS VIEW OF IT WOULD CAUSE ITS VANISHMENT.
Any space, energy, form, object, individual, or physical universe condition can exist only when an alteration has occurred of the original As-is-ness so as to prevent a casual view from vanishing it. In other words, anything which is persisting must contain a “lie” so that the original consideration is not completely duplicated.
AXIOM 30. THE GENERAL RULE OF AUDITING IS THAT ANYTHING WHICH IS UNWANTED AND YET PERSISTS MUST BE THOROUGHLY VIEWED, AT WHICH TIME IT WILL VANISH.
If only partially viewed, its intensity, at least, will decrease.
AXIOM 31. GOODNESS AND BADNESS, BEAUTIFULNESS AND UGLINESS, ARE ALIKE CONSIDERATIONS AND HAVE NO OTHER BASIS THAN OPINION.
AXIOM 32. ANYTHING WHICH IS NOT DIRECTLY OBSERVED TENDS TO PERSIST.
AXIOM 33. ANY AS-IS-NESS WHICH IS ALTERED BY NOT-IS-NESS (BY FORCE) TENDS TO PERSIST.
AXIOM 34. ANY IS-NESS, WHEN ALTERED BY FORCE, TENDS TO PERSIST.
AXIOM 35. THE ULTIMATE TRUTH IS A STATIC.
A Static has no mass, meaning, mobility, no wave-length, no time, no location in
space, no space.
AXIOM 36. A LIE IS A SECOND POSTULATE, STATEMENT OR CONDITION DESIGNED TO MASK A PRIMARY POSTULATE WHICH IS PERMITTED TO REMAIN.
Examples:
Neither truth nor a lie is a motion or alteration of a particle from one position to another.
A lie is a statement that a particle having moved did not move, or a statement that a particle, not having moved, did move.
The basic lie is that a consideration which was made was not made or that it was different.
AXIOM 37. WHEN A PRIMARY CONSIDERATION IS ALTERED BUT STILL EXISTS, PERSISTENCE IS ACHIEVED FOR THE ALTERING CONSIDERATION.
All persistence depends on the Basic Truth, but the persistence is of the altering consideration, for the Basic Truth has neither persistence nor impersistence.
AXIOM 38. 1: STUPIDITY IS THE UNKNOWNESS OF CONSIDERATION.
2: MECHANICAL DEFINITION: STUPIDITY IS UNKNOWNESS OF TIME, PLACE, FORM AND EVENT.
1: TRUTH IS THE EXACT CONSIDERATION.
2: TRUTH IS THE EXACT TIME, PLACE, FORM, AND EVENT.
Thus we see that failure to discover Truth brings about stupidity.
Thus we see that the discovery of Truth would bring about an As-is-ness by actual experiment.
Thus we see that an ultimate truth would have no time, place, form or event.
Thus, then, we perceive that we can achieve a persistence only when we mask a truth.
Lying is an alteration of time, place, event, or form.
Lying becomes Alter-is-ness, becomes Stupidity.
(The blackness of cases is an accumulation of the case’s own or another’s lies.) Anything which persists must avoid As-is-ness. Thus, anything, to persist, must contain a lie.
AXIOM 39. LIFE POSES PROBLEMS FOR ITS OWN SOLUTION.
AXIOM 40. ANY PROBLEM, TO BE A PROBLEM, MUST CONTAIN A LIE, IF IT WERE TRUTH, IT WOULD UNMOCK.
An “unsolvable problem” would have the greatest persistence.
It would also contain the greatest number of altered facts. To make a problem, one must introduce Alter-is-ness.
AXIOM 41. THAT INTO WHICH ALTER-IS-NESS IS INTRODUCED BECOMES A PROBLEM.
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PROBLEM.
It is a problem because it contains Alter-is-ness.
AXIOM 43. TIME IS THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF UNTRUTH.
Time states the untruth of consecutive considerations.
AXIOM 44. THETA (THE STATIC) HAS NO LOCATION IN MATTER, ENERGY, SPACE, OR TIME. IT IS CAPABLE OF CONSIDERATION.
AXIOM 45. THETA CAN CONSIDER ITSELF TO BE PLACED, AT WHICH MOMENT IT BECOMES PLACED, AND TO THAT DEGREE A PROBLEM.
AXIOM 46. THETA CAN BECOME A PROBLEM BY ITS CONSIDERATIONS, BUT THEN BECOMES MEST.
A problem is to some degree MEST. MEST is a problem.
AXIOM 47. THETA CAN RESOLVE PROBLEMS.
AXIOM 48. LIFE IS A GAME WHEREIN THETA AS THE STATIC SOLVES THE PROBLEMS OF THETA AS MEST.
AXIOM 49. TO SOLVE ANY PROBLEM IT IS ONLY NECESSARY TO BECOME THETA, THE SOLVER, RATHER THAN THETA, THE PROBLEM.
AXIOM 50. THETA AS MEST MUST CONTAIN CONSIDERATIONS WHICH ARE LIES.
AXIOM 51. POSTULATES AND LIVE COMMUNICATION NOT BEING MEST AND BEING SENIOR TO MEST CAN ACCOMPLISH CHANGE IN MEST WITHOUT BRINGING ABOUT A PERSISTENCE OF MEST. THUS AUDITING CAN OCCUR.
AXIOM 52. MEST PERSISTS AND SOLIDIFIES TO THE DEGREE THAT IT IS NOT GRANTED LIFE.
AXIOM 53. A STABLE DATUM IS NECESSARY TO THE ALIGNMENT OF DATA.
AXIOM 54. A TOLERANCE OF CONFUSION AND AN AGREED-UPON STABLE DATUM ON WHICH TO ALIGN THE DATA IN A CONFUSION ARE AT ONCE NECESSARY FOR A SANE REACTION ON THE EIGHT DYNAMICS.
THIS DEFINES SANITY.
AXIOM 55. THE CYCLE OF ACTION IS A CONSIDERATION. CREATE, SURVIVE, DESTROY, THE CYCLE OF ACTION ACCEPTED BY THE G.E.*, IS ONLY A CONSIDERATION WHICH CAN BE CHANGED BY THE THETAN MAKING A NEW CONSIDERATION OR DIFFERENT ACTION CYCLES.
AXIOM 56. THETA BRINGS ORDER TO CHAOS.
Corollary: Chaos brings disorder to theta.
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AXIOM 57. ORDER MANIFESTS WHEN COMMUNICATION, CONTROL AND HAVINGNESS ARE AVAILABLE TO THETA.
Definition:
Communication: the interchange of ideas across space.
Control: positive postulating, which is intention, and the execution thereof.
Havingness: that which permits the experience of mass and pressure.
AXIOM 58. INTELLIGENCE AND JUDGEMENT ARE MEASURED BY THE ABILITY TO EVALUATE RELATIVE IMPORTANCES.
COROLLARY: THE ABILITY TO EVALUATE IMPORTANCES AND UNIMPORTANCES IS THE HIGHEST FACULTY OF LOGIC.
COROLLARY: IDENTIFICATION IS A MONOTONE ASSIGNMENT OF IMPORTANCE.
COROLLARY: IDENTIFICATION IS THE INABILITY TO EVALUATE DIFFERENCES IN TIME, LOCATION, FORM, COMPOSITION OR IMPORTANCE.
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1. THE AUDITOR’S CODE AD 18
2. THE CODE OF HONOR
3. THE CODE OF A SCIENTOLOGIST
4. THE CREED OF THE CHURCH
THIS IS THE AUDITOR’S CODE OF 1968
It supersedes any earlier Codes. It has been developed as part of the Standard Tech Programme. It is the official Auditor’s Code.
It is required of auditors and students under training that they know this Code by heart, know what it means, and as they process, practice it. It is one thing to know it—another to practice it. A good auditor does both. It is not something to be read, agreed with and forgotten.
Following it means success in cases. Neglecting any part of it means failures. It combines the arduously won experiences collected during eighteen years from the practice of thousands of auditors.
We want successes.
LRH
THE AUDITOR Issue 43
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